| Literature DB >> 11160698 |
S Bose1, A Malur, A K Banerjee.
Abstract
Human parainfluenza virus type 3 (HPIV-3) is an airborne pathogen that infects the epithelial cells of the respiratory tract. In the present study we investigated the interaction of HPIV-3 with the type II alveolar human lung polarized epithelial A549 cells. Although HPIV-3 entry and budding were bidirectional from both the apical and the basolateral domains, HPIV-3 exhibited preferential entry and release from the apical pole. While disruption of the cellular actin microfilament and microtubule by cytochalasin D and nocodazole, respectively, had no effect on virus entry, disruption of the microtubule but not the microfilament inhibited HPIV-3 release.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID: 11160698 PMCID: PMC115145 DOI: 10.1128/JVI.75.4.1984-1989.2001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Virol ISSN: 0022-538X Impact factor: 5.103